1 consurrexit autem Satan contra Israhel
et incitavit David ut numeraret Israhel
2 dixitque David ad Ioab et ad principes populi
ite et numerate Israhel a Bersabee usque Dan
et adferte mihi numerum ut sciam
3 responditque Ioab
augeat Dominus populum suum centuplum quam sunt
nonne domine mi rex omnes servi tui sunt
quare hoc quaerit dominus meus
quod in peccatum reputetur Israheli
4 sed sermo regis magis praevaluit
egressusque est Ioab et circuivit universum Israhel
et reversus est Hierusalem
5 deditque David numerum eorum quos circumierat
et inventus est omnis Israhel numerus mille milia et centum milia virorum educentium gladium
de Iuda autem trecenta septuaginta milia bellatorum
6 nam Levi et Beniamin non numeravit
eo quod invitus exsequeretur regis imperium
7 displicuit autem Deo quod iussum erat et percussit
Israhel
8 dixitque David ad Deum
peccavi nimis ut hoc facerem
obsecro aufer iniquitatem servi tui quia insipienter egi
9 et locutus est Dominus ad Gad videntem David dicens
10 vade et loquere ad David et dic
haec dicit Dominus trium tibi optionem do
unum quod volueris elige et faciam tibi
11 cumque venisset Gad ad David dixit ei
haec dicit Dominus elige quod volueris
12 aut tribus annis pestilentiam
aut tribus mensibus fugere te hostes tuos
et gladium eorum non posse evadere
aut tribus diebus gladium Domini et mortem
versari in terra
et angelum Domini interficere in universis finibus Israhel
nunc igitur vide quid respondeam ei qui misit me
13 et dixit David ad Gad
ex omni parte me angustiae premunt
sed melius mihi est ut incidam in manus Domini
quia multae sunt miserationes eius
quam in manus hominum
14 misit ergo Dominus pestilentiam in Israhel
et ceciderunt de Israhel septuaginta milia virorum
15 misit quoque angelum in Hierusalem ut percuteret eam
cumque percuteretur vidit Dominus
et misertus est super magnitudinem mali
et imperavit angelo qui percutiebat sufficit iam cesset manus tua
porro angelus Domini stabat iuxta aream Ornan Iebusei
16 levansque David oculos suos
vidit angelum Domini stantem inter terram et caelum
et evaginatum gladium in manu eius et versum contra Hierusalem
et ceciderunt tam ipse quam maiores natu
vestiti ciliciis et proni in terram
17 dixitque David ad Deum
nonne ego sum qui iussi ut numeraretur populus
ego qui peccavi ego qui malum feci iste grex quid commeruit
Domine Deus meus
vertatur obsecro manus tua in me et in domum patris mei
populus autem tuus non percutiatur
18 angelus autem Domini praecepit Gad ut diceret David
et ascenderet extrueretque altare Domino Deo in area Ornan
Iebusei
19 ascendit ergo David iuxta sermonem Gad
quem locutus fuerat ex nomine Domini
20 porro Ornan cum suspexisset et vidisset angelum
quattuorque filii eius cum eo absconderunt se
nam eo tempore terebat in area triticum
21 igitur cum venisset David ad Ornan
conspexit eum Ornan et processit ei obviam de area
et adoravit illum pronus in terram
22 dixitque ei David da mihi locum areae tuae
ut aedificem in ea altare Domini
ita ut quantum valet argenti accipias et cesset plaga a populo
23 dixit autem Ornan ad David
tolle et faciat dominus meus rex quodcumque ei placet
sed et boves do in holocaustum
et tribulas in ligna et triticum in sacrificium
omnia libens praebeo
24 dixitque ei rex David
nequaquam ita fiet sed argentum dabo quantum valet
neque enim tibi auferre debeo
et sic offerre Domino holocausta gratuita
25 dedit ergo David Ornan pro loco siclos auri iustissimi ponderis
sescentos
26 et aedificavit ibi altare Domino
obtulitque holocausta et pacifica et invocavit Dominum
et exaudivit eum in igne de caelo super altare holocausti
27 praecepitque Dominus angelo
et convertit gladium suum in vaginam
28 protinus ergo David videns
quod exaudisset eum Dominus in area Ornan Iebusei
immolavit ibi victimas
29 tabernaculum autem Domini quod fecerat Moses in deserto et altare
holocaustorum
ea tempestate erat in excelso Gabaon
30 et non praevaluit David ire ad altare
ut ibi obsecraret Deum
nimio enim fuerat timore perterritus
videns gladium angeli Domini
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. 2 And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it . 3 And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord’s servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel? 4 Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
5 ¶ And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword. 6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. 8 And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, because I have done this thing: but now, I beseech thee, do away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.
9 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Gad, David’s seer, saying, 10 Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. 11 So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Choose thee 12 Either three years’ famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me. 13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.
14 ¶ So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men. 15 And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. 16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. 17 And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but as for these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father’s house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
18 ¶ Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite. 19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the name of the LORD. 20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat. 21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground. 22 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou shalt grant it me for the full price: that the plague may be stayed from the people. 23 And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all. 24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings without cost. 25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight. 26 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering. 27 And the LORD commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath thereof.
28 ¶ At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there. 29 For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon. 30 But David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the LORD.